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JUDGES' BIOS
Fiction
Gail Godwin (chair)
was a three time National Book Award Finalist in Fiction:
1975
for The Odd Woman ; 1980
for Violet Clay; 1983
for A Mother and Two Daughters . Her latest
novel is Queen of the Underworld.
www.gailgodwin.com
Rebecca
Goldstein, her latest novel is Thirty-Six
Arguments for the Existence of God: A Work of Fiction.
www.rebeccagoldstein.com
Elinor
Lipman, her latest novel is My Latest Grievance.
www.elinorlipman.com
Reginald
McKnight is a short story writer and novelist,
whose most recent work is He Sleeps.
Jess Walter,
a 2006
National Book Award Finalist in Fiction for The
Zero.
www.jesswalter.com
Nonfiction
Marie
Arana (chair), a 2001
National Book Award Finalist in Nonfiction for American
Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood.
Farah
Jasmine Griffin, a professor and author, her
latest book, written with Salim Washington, is Clawing
at the Limits of Cool: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and
the Greatest Jazz Collaboration Ever.
www.columbia.edu/cu/iraas/griffin.html
Russell
Jacoby, a historian and author, whose most
recent book is Picture Imperfect: Utopian thought
for an Anti-Utopian Age.
Megan
Marshall, a professor and author, whose most
recent book is the biography The Peabody Sisters:
Three Women Who Ignited American Romanticism.
Kevin Starr,
a 2006 National Humanities Medal recipient, whose most
recent book is California: A History.
Poetry
Robert Pinsky (chair),
a former Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library
of Congress, his most recent poetry collection is Gulf
Music: Poems.
Mary
Jo Bang, professor and the author of five poetry
collections, her most recent book was Elegy.
Kimiko
Hahn is the author of seven collections of
poetry, including The Narrow Road to the Interior.
Tony
Hoagland is an award winning poet of three
poetry collections. His latest publication is Hard
Rain.
Marilyn Nelson
is a three time Finalist for the National Book Awards,
twice for poetry, in 1997
for The Fields of Praise: New and Selected Poems,
and again in 1991
for The Homeplace; again in 2001
in Young People’s Literature for Carver:
A Life in Poems.
Young
People's Literature
Daniel
Handler (chair), best known for his
work under the pen name Lemony Snicket. His latest book
is Adverbs.
www.lemonysnicket.com
Holly
Black, is best known for her series, The Spiderwick
Chronicles. Her latest book is The Nixie's Song
(Beyond the Spiderwick Chronicles).
www.blackholly.com
Angela
Johnson’s most recent book is The
First Part Last, which won the 2004 Coretta Scott
King Award (Writing Category) and won the 2004 Michael
L. Printz Award for Excellence in Young Adult Literature.
Carolyn Mackler’s
most recent teen novel is Guyaholic : The Story
of Finding, Flirting, Forgetting... And the Boy Who
Changes Everything.
www.carolynmackler.com
Cynthia Voigt
was a 1982
National Book Award Finalist in Children’s Books,
Fiction (Hardcover) for her novel Homecoming.
Her most recent novel is Bad Girls, Bad Girls, Whatcha
Gonna Do?
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